A software for Generalized Structured Component Analysis

The component-based structural equation model domain is expanding quickly with new users and newmethods. In this paper, we propose to focus on Generalized Structured Component Analysis (GSCA). Theworld of structural equation models was dominated for more than two decades by the covariance-basedstructural equation models also called SEM, but these last years new approaches based on different principleshave appeared, the so-called component-based SEM. SEM methods have been so popular for two reasons:their theoretical foundations and the availability of well-known commercial software (LISREL, AMOS?).The component-based structural equation model has suffered from two problems: the lack of global criterionand the lack of commercial software to apply these methods. These two problems are an old story thanks tonew methods like Generalized Structured Component Analysis (GSCA) or Regularized Generalized CanonicalCorrelation Analysis (RGCCA) and the XLSTAT software that offers a full toolbox for component-basedSEM